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“ (5) Every employee shall report immediately to his controlling officer every instance that comes to his notice where he has cause to believe that any other employee while on duty or at or about the time he is due to commence duty—

“ (a) Shows any effects whatsoever of having consumed alcoholic liquor or of having taken harmful drugs:

“ (b) Consumes, takes, or has in his possession, custody, or control otherwise than for conveyance or delivery by the Department in the ordinary course of business, any alcoholic liquor or harmful drugs.”

3. By omitting Regulation 85, and substituting the following regulation in lieu thereof:—

“ 85. (1) The General Manager may grant a special allowance to an employee—

“ (a) For special work performed in the course of the employee’s duty; or

“ (b) In any other case where he considers that the circumstances justify the payment.

“ (2) Paragraph (b) of clause (1) of this regulation shall be deemed to have come into force on the 9th day of July, 1943.”

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amending Order in Council delegating Powers under the Cemeteries Act, 1908

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 10th day of January, 1945

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to the Cemeteries Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby revoke, in so far as it relates to the Pongaroa Cemetery, the Order in Council delegating powers under the said Act made on the eighteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-first day of the same month at page 2429.

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.

(H.C. 45/2.)

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £1,000 by the Geraldine County Council and prescribing the Conditions thereof

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 10th day of January, 1945

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the Geraldine County Council (hereinafter called “the said local authority”), being desirous of raising a loan of one thousand pounds (£1,000), to be known as “Bridges Loan, 1944” (hereinafter called “the said loan”), for the purpose of renewing Skipton Bridge, has complied with the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), and it is expedient that the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council, as required by the said Act, should be given to the raising of the said loan:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section eleven of the said Act, as set out in section twenty-nine of the Finance Act, 1932 (No. 2), and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby consent to the raising in New Zealand by the said local authority of the said loan for the said purpose up to the amount of one thousand pounds (£1,000), and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows:—

(1) The term for which the said loan or any part thereof may be raised shall not exceed ten (10) years.

(2) The rate of interest that may be paid in respect of the said loan or any part thereof shall be such as shall not produce to the lender or lenders a rate exceeding three pounds ten shillings (£3 10s.) per centum per annum.

(3) The said local authority shall, before raising the said loan or any part thereof, make provision for the repayment thereof by establishing a sinking fund under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, or under such other statutory enactment as may be applicable, and shall thereafter make payments to such sinking fund at intervals of not more than one year at a rate or rates per centum which shall be not less than eight pounds ten shillings (£8 10s.), such payments to be made in respect of every part of the said loan for the time being so borrowed and not repaid, the first such payment to be made not later than one year after the first day from which interest to the lender or lenders is computed on the said loan or any part thereof so raised.

(4) The payment of interest and the repayment of principal in respect of the said loan shall be made in New Zealand.

(5) No amount payable as either interest or sinking fund in respect of the said loan shall be paid out of loan-moneys.

(6) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procurement fees in respect of the raising of the said loan or any part thereof shall not in the aggregate exceed one-half per centum of any amount raised.

(7) No moneys shall be borrowed under this consent after the expiration of two years from the date hereof.

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.

(T. 49/468/3.)

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £20,000 by the Taradale Town Board and prescribing the Conditions thereof

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 10th day of January, 1945

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the Taradale Town Board (hereinafter called the “said local authority”), being desirous of raising a loan of twenty thousand pounds (£20,000), to be known as “Housing Loan, 1944” (hereinafter called “the said loan”), for the purpose of the acquisition of land and the erection of workers’ dwellings, has complied with the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), and it is expedient that the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council, as required by the said Act, should be given to the raising of the said loan:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section eleven of the said Act, as set out in section twenty-nine of the Finance Act, 1932 (No. 2), and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby consent to the raising in New Zealand by the said local authority of the said loan for the said purpose up to the amount of twenty thousand pounds (£20,000), and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows:—

(1) The term for which the said loan or any part thereof may be raised shall not exceed twenty-five (25) years.

(2) The rate of interest that may be paid in respect of the said loan or any part thereof shall be such as shall not produce to the lender or lenders a rate or rates exceeding three pounds (£3) per centum per annum.

(3) The said loan or any part thereof, together with interest thereon, shall be repaid by equal aggregate annual, or half-yearly instalments extending over the term as determined in (1) above.

(4) The payment of such instalments shall be made in New Zealand, and no instalments shall be paid out of loan-moneys.

(5) No amount shall be payable for brokerage, underwriting, or procurement fees in respect of the raising of the said loan or any part thereof.

(6) No moneys shall be borrowed under this consent after the expiration of two years from the date hereof.

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.

(T. 49/108/10.)

Varying the Determinations in respect of Portion (£26,100) of the Wellington City Council’s Loan of £200,000

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 10th day of January, 1945

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, and subject to the determinations as to borrowing and repayment therein set out, consent was given to the raising by the Wellington City Council (hereinafter called “the said local authority”) of the sum of two hundred thousand pounds (£200,000) by a loan to be known as “Sewerage Loan, 1937”:

And whereas by Order in Council made on the thirteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-three, the period within which the amount then unraised amounting to twenty-six thousand one hundred pounds (£26,100) (hereinafter called “the said sum”) might be borrowed was extended to eight (8) years from the date of the Order in Council made on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven:

And whereas the said sum has still not yet been raised and it is expedient to vary the determinations aforesaid in respect of the said sum by again extending the period within which the said sum may be raised:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section eleven of the Local Government Loans Act, 1926, as set out in section twenty-nine of the Finance Act, 1932 (No. 2), and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby again vary the determinations in respect of the said sum by prescribing that in lieu of a term of eight (8) years, as specified in the Order in Council made on the thirteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-three, no moneys shall be borrowed under the consent contained in the Order in Council made on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, after the expiration of ten (10) years from the date thereof.

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.

(T. 49/168/78.)